Liberals Exploit Orlando Terror Massacre To Push Anti-Gun Agenda

Even though Omar Mateen, the alleged gunman in the shooting at an Orlando nightclub, called 911 and pledged allegiance to ISIS prior to the shooting, liberals on Twitter blamed the NRA for the Orlando Terror Attack, and for the terrorist having an automatic weapon (that he didn’t have) and an assault weapon (every weapon is an assault weapon).

But it’s certainly much easier for liberals to scapegoat the NRA rather than blaming the massacre on the real villain, radical Muslims, political Islam, Islamist terrorist etc. It is so much easier to believe that if guns were taken away from everyone tall attacks would stop, as if criminals would “obey gun laws” or that terrorists wouldn’t find something else to use such as suicide bomb belts, or (as was used in Boston) a pressure cooker turned into a bomb. Liberals usually go for the easy excuse, and their take on the horrific attack in Orlando is just one more example

All of the tweets below and most of the comments are the work of my college Joe Newby and appeared on his great site Conservativefiringline. The comments in bold black type were added by yours truly:

Parsi and the organization he leads the National Iranian American Council’s (NIAC) have been the leading lobbyists in America for the Iranian Islamist regime. Something he would deny but The US District Court for the District of Columbia disagreed, finding in 2012 that the work of NIAC president and founder Tritra Parsi was “not inconsistent with the idea that he was first and foremost an advocate for the regime.” So perhaps before placing blame on the violent type of Sunni Islam, Parsi should explain why he is a front man for a violent terrorist funding Shia regime.

Such a tragedy in Orlando…. Thanks NRA.The gun lobby is not the will of the people of this country!

Note: All rifles are assault rifles, a knife used in an attack is an assault knife, etc. The entire purpose of a weapon is to assault. BTW the terrorist, Mateen didn’t have an automatic weapon #BanStupidTweeters. In fact:

Isis will be delighted Mateen had guns, but NRA & conservative lobby made sure he could buy them legally despite FBI investigations #Orlando

Law enforcement and politicians have speculated about connections to terrorism.

Clinton went on to say that international terror groups need to be defeated and the U.S. should continue to counter their recruiting efforts.

“This was also an act of hate. The gunman attacked an LGBT nightclub during Pride Month. To the LGBT community: Please know that you have millions of allies across our country. I am one of them,” Clinton said.

The former secretary of State also called for gun control, saying the U.S. needs to keep guns “like the ones used last night” out of the hands of terrorists and criminals.

“This is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States, and it reminds us once more that weapons of war have no place on our streets,” Clinton said.

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